https://macaulifestyle.com/lifestyl...ion-with-national-footballer-nicholas-torrao/ Macau national team and Benfica de Macau striker Nikki Torrao interview.
https://macaulifestyle.com/lifestyl...raining-and-triumphs-at-s-l-benfica-de-macau/ Benfica de Macau director Duarte Alves interview.
Benfica de Macau defeated Monte Carlo 1:0 and secured their fifth consecutive Macau Elite League title. Congratulations.
Benfica Macau 2-0 Sporting Benfica Macau won the league without a single defeat. The league season is over. There is still the FA Cup.
https://macaulifestyle.com/lifestyle/people/ball-talk-with-carlos-leonel/ Macau Life Style interview with Benfica de Macau striker Carlos Leonel.
A couple of stunners. Benfica and Sporting will play for third. CPK and Ching Fung will play for the Cup.
MUST CPK have won the Macau FA Cup by beating Ching Fung 5-1. It is their first trophy in the top division. Benfica Macau took third place with a 5:0 win over Sporting. The 11-a-side football season in Macau is now over. Hopefully the players find ways to stay fit for the 2019 EAFF Cup first round in Mongolia.
Macanese striker Leong Ka-Hang has signed for Lee Man. He aims to score ten goals this season. He joined Lee Man because he played under former Macau national football team coach Chan Hiu-Ming before and wants to continue with him.
Macau football awards: Pang Chi-Hang won Best local player and is one of the Best XI. Diego Silva Patriota of CPK won Macau player of the year. Full list of winners are here: http://macaufa.com/pdf/2018/Doc/2018First_Division_star_election_result.pdf
Macau national team player Lam Ngai-Tong has re-joined Wofoo Tai Po. But I guess due to his nationality he will not be able to play in the 2019 AFC Cup.
https://www.fifa.com/associations/association=mac/index.html It is not listed on Macau's international friendly list yet on FIFA...
Macau FA Development Team will enter the Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League. They will take part as a special invited club and will not enjoy promotion privileges even if they won it. MFA Development will play in the Wuhan region and will feature mainly youth players plus a few 27-28 years old for competitiveness. Macau FA hopes that the young players will be spotted and be able to join professional clubs in the mainland.
Macau Development Team won their first match 3-1 but lost the second match 0-4. I don't understand why the matches in this "amateur" competition are played so tightly. In fact, I wonder why Macau doesn't play with this team in the Asian Games. East Timor is lowered ranked than Macau yet they are playing.
Macau Development Team drew 3-3 with Wuhan Freeman. With 1 win 1draw and 1 loss, MDT has 4 points and advance due to them beating Hunan. They will play in the semi-final today against Wuhan Shangwen. The matches are so tightly scheduled!!! They play almost every day or every other day! This is a real amateur league and the amateurs are the organizers.
MDT lost 0-2 to Wuhan Shangwen and are out of the Chinese Champions League. Honestly 4 matches in 5 days is a little too much for anyone. I don't understand what the organizers were thinking. Macau should have sent this team to play in the Asian Games instead. East Timor (ranked 190) is playing. Macau ranked 185 should be okay to play. I guess Macau FA missed the application deadline (again).
Macau FA announced a 30 man squad for the upcoming friendly on 29 August against Solomon Islands. The squad will narrow down to 23 for the EAFF East Asia Cup qualifying round in September in Mongolia. Chan Man and Niki Torres are not available to play. But Leung Ka-Hang (Lee Man FC) has returned from a year long injury. If he and Carlos Leonel can hit it off, then Macau has a real chance of progressing to the second round in Taiwan in November.
International friendly: Macau 1:4 Solomon Islands Captain Paulo Cheng thinks his teammates lacked concentration in the second half which allowed Solomon Islands to score 3 goals. Coach Iong is satisfied with the team's performance and they will learn from this match.
Macau national football team have departed for Mongolia to take part in the EAFF Championship Round 1. Hong Kong based Leong Ka-Hang is in the squad but Lam Ngai-Tong is not. Carlos Leonel is also in. I hope they win it and get to the second round.
2019 EAFF E1 Championship preliminary round: Mongolia 4:1 Macau Macau 2:0 Guam Lam Ka-Seng and Leong Ka-Hang scored to secure a win for Macau and keep their hopes of progressing alive. But I think Mongolia already has the group done and dusted after beating Macau and NMI 4-1 and 9-0 respectively. Macau needs Guam to beat Mongolia to have any chance of going through. Guam is good but I don't think they can beat Mongolia.
Macau received a surprise gift from China and the AFC as AFC announced the ACL quarter-final second leg match between Tianjin Quanjian and Kashima Antlers will be played in the SAR on 18 September. Ticket details to be announced. I wonder how they are going to handle the ticket sales.